That blog was very good, queenmab, and it's good to be reminded that those thin women we so often envy may live highly unenviable lives to maintain their size.
That meme I posted though, is more about the opposite end of the scale, where feminists are aware about how fat is indeed a feminist issue, and don't want to "diet to be thin" so much as being thin is a feminine trait desired by the patriarchy to keep us pre-occupied and decorative (double win for them!). But on the flip side, being overweight in unhealthy.
At my aerobics class the other week a new instructor (woman) was filling in the for the usual (homosexual male) instructor. While he never usually makes any comments about our appearance, but just pushes us to work harder for its own sake, she was constantly making comment along the lines of "work those buns, we want to look good in our bikinis!". Um, no. I don't. She really annoyed me with her constant assumption that I was there to improve my appearance over my health.
Whenever women are urged to lose weight and exercise, there never seems to any emphasis on the health benefits, just the aesthetic ones. It really makes me sad. Our health doesn't rate as important as long as we're easy on the eye. Just another way we're completely objectified. Style over substance.